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I hope to soon be back to posting regularly, especially since it’s imperative to keep up with the fuckery Chitler and his white supremacist friends are engaging in, but things in my personal life have pretty much exploded.

I’ve been helping my friend B recover from a serious medical crisis. His brothers are in no way supportive, and when we tried to take him home, his younger brother assaulted him. He has a legal right to live in the home he leases with them, but for his health and safety, he’s decided not to go back. He’ll be staying with me for the time being.

Unfortunately, his brothers decided to pull this shit on him when our house was filling up with people: we’ve got a completely adorable couple moving into the room B’s been using, and a poor guy who’s stuck in the States while trying to satisfy Canadian immigration living in the office upstairs. So later today, B and I have to completely remake my room so we can share it, which includes packing most of my stuff off into storage. Then we have to figure out how five people are all going to manage to share one bathroom. It’ll be a bit rough at times, but we’ll make it.

I will admit that this neurodivergent introvert is going to have some moments of losing her shit before she adjusts. There may be occasional freakouts. At least B’s really good at bearing with me. And I figure this is great practice for possibly having to bunch up in a remote hideout if we have to become guerillas or something.

This is only a temporary situation: we’re hoping to move to a place of our own within two or three months. Then there’ll be room to breathe.

These next few weeks are going to be hard, folks. I found out why I wasn’t getting my checks from my main blogging job and will be getting paid in two to three weeks, but rent is due now. B and I are going to be splitting the rent, but we’ll need money for deposits for a new place. We should both have day jobs by the end of this month as long as nothing falls through, but we could use help in the meantime. If you can donate to help get us on our feet more quickly, please use the link below.

In other news, I am not doing well at all. If you want to help me make rent so there’s one less thing causing panic attacks, I would be eternally grateful. You can donate here:

I may be taking the next couple of days off from ETEV, due to major upheavals at home, plus B and I going out job hunting, and having exceeded my ability to handle shit without medication. Please do follow me on Facebook (most of my stuff is public, so you can see and share even if we’re not formally friends). With the Chitler regime doing something else appalling every half hour, it’s about the only place where I can even try to keep up. Plus, you’ll get lots of pictures of a very elderly felid. She is just over a month away from her 23rd birthday! Continue reading “New at Rosetta Stones: How to Save Public Education”→

Absent a miracle, Cheeto Hitler and Il Douche will be taking over the country in January. We’re going to have to work our utter asses off to hang on to any of the advances we’ve made. And considering how Republicans in general feel about democracy these days, coupled with a con man and a Christian Dominionist, we’re going to have to fight to the finish if anything resembling our country is to survive.

In order to be effective, we need to know what we’re dealing with, and how to counter it. So please suggest any and all books you’d recommend for people needing to learn about fighting the good fight. Subjects can include, but are not limited to, the following subjects:

Civil Rights and Resistance movements

Organizing

Fascist, totalitarian, and other despotic forms of government

Famous dictators such as Hitler, Mussolini, and others whose behavior mirrors Chitler and Il Douche.

New posts below. Thank you to everyone who’s donated so far! We’re close to being able to make rent, but still need to make the car payment, phone bill, insurance, and food. My check for blogging won’t be here for at least a couple of weeks, so we’re stuck. If you can, please chip in. If you can’t, please share widely. Thank you!

The best laid plans o’ cats and dames have again gang aft agley. That lovely commission job we got? First paycheck was clothes. There has been no second paycheck. Needless to say, I’m back on the job market. But I haven’t landed a new position yet.

As if that wasn’t bad enough, my check for Rosetta Stones hasn’t gotten here this month. That’s a huge chunk of the rent missing.

Misha and I desperately need your help to keep us both fed and housed, plus make the car and insurance payments. So if you’ve got a bit to spare, we’re eternally grateful!

It’s a long story that my Facebook friends already know, but the canvassing job I had over the summer ended. I do have another job to supplement writing income, but it’s commission-based and I won’t see any proceeds for at least another couple of weeks. In the meantime, Misha and I could use your help to keep us both fed and housed, plus meet other expenses that decided to pile up at a bad time. The car still needs repair, and its tag is expiring in a few days. So if you’ve got a bit to spare, we could definitely use your help!

So it’s like this: I had a GREAT job lined up. The hours were perfect, the organization was a good one, and I’d be doing good work. But the person I’d be working for kept canceling things at the last minute and changing plans. Come in today. No, wait, tomorrow. No, wait, this other time. She offered me the job, told me to start on a specific day, then told me I couldn’t start that day because the HR guy was out of town. So I made other plans for the day in question, only to have her get back to me and say the HR guy was there after all and I could come in if I wanted, but it was okay if I couldn’t. Since I’d already committed to something else I couldn’t cancel, I told her I’d come in on the following day. Then she decided she wanted to do a second interview instead. She was upset that my phone didn’t work in the house, even though she never had a single problem contacting me by email. She would blame me when things didn’t go as planned, even though she was the one responsible for them not working out. Pretty much the last straw was when she told me to call her at a specific time, didn’t answer or call back for nearly half an hour, and then got upset with me for emailing her to follow up when I couldn’t wait in an area with cell service any longer.

There were also indications she would demand I work off the clock.

I did my best to soldier through all of this and try to land the job, but finally, had to realize I’m throwing good time after bad (and paying transportation costs to go downtown on top of that). If I finally managed to start working there, there’s no guarantee I’d be paid for the time I work. And red flags in her behavior tell me I would have been in a massively bad work environment.

So I’m now back to looking for a job, but that means I’ve lost two weeks of job hunting while I thought I had actually landed gainful employment.

I’m behind on all of my bills: rent, car payment, and insurance. On top of that, I had a molar shatter last week, which will need to be fixed soon. And there are no immediate prospects of having a job within the next two weeks.

If you can help, please do consider donating to keep me and Misha afloat. And there are perks! Even small amounts help – and they’ll get you the password to unlock groovy stuff. Details below:

I’m still looking for a part-time job to supplement my writing income so I can stop begging off you all, but we’re not quite there yet.* I’ll need your help to make it through this month.

I don’t want to keep asking for funds without offering donors a little something extra, though, so I’m going to give donors exclusive early access to some content here. Once a week, we’ll have a password-protected post available to donors only. Anyone who has donated over the past three months will get an email with a password to unlock that content. I may even throw in a second tier for donors who have given more than $25 to keep Misha and I alive.

Those posts will remain exclusive for around 30 days, after which I’ll release them to the general public. New donors will have retroactive access to content that’s still locked.

If you can’t afford to donate, you can still help us out by sharing this post far and wide.

Thanks to our wonderful and generous readers, Misha and I have managed to keep ETEV going so far, but it’s tough out there for freelancers. Until I manage to wrangle a day job with a steady paycheck, we’ll still need your help to keep ourselves housed and fed. If you like what you read here and can spare a bit, please donate today.

Thanks to the awesomeness of my wonderful and generous readers, Misha and I are almost covered for the month. We just need to scrape up the rest of the rent, and we’ll be set. If you can help support my writing, please consider donating with this spiffy button which I’ve fixed!

****UPDATE: I got word that some of you are having trouble getting the Donate button to work. If it asks for an email addy, use dhunterauthor @ yahoo. Remove the spaces and add .com. Easy-peasy! If there’s a different payment service you’d like me to set up with, let me know and I’ll look into it. Thank you again, my darlings!****

You all simply rock!

Thanks to your generosity, Misha and I have all major bills covered for this month. We’re still needing to cover the rent, so if you can afford to contribute to our efforts, please donate today.